Bill Amendment: IL HB4219 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: SCH CD-FENTANYL EDUCATION
Status: 2024-05-25 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III [HB4219 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4219-House_Amendment_001.html
Bill Title: SCH CD-FENTANYL EDUCATION
Status: 2024-05-25 - Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Emil Jones, III [HB4219 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB4219-House_Amendment_001.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4219 | ||||||
2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4219 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 27-13.2 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/27-13.2) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-13.2) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 27-13.2. Required instruction. | ||||||
8 | (a) In every public school there shall be instruction, | ||||||
9 | study, and discussion of effective methods by which pupils may | ||||||
10 | recognize the danger of and avoid abduction, and in every | ||||||
11 | public school maintaining any of grades kindergarten through | ||||||
12 | 8, there shall be, for such grades, instruction, study, and | ||||||
13 | discussion of effective methods for the prevention and | ||||||
14 | avoidance of drugs and the dangers of opioid and substance | ||||||
15 | abuse. School boards may include such required instruction, | ||||||
16 | study, and discussion in the courses of study regularly taught |
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1 | in the public schools of their respective districts; provided, | ||||||
2 | however, that such instruction shall be given each year to all | ||||||
3 | pupils in grades kindergarten through 8. The State | ||||||
4 | Superintendent of Education may prepare and make available to | ||||||
5 | all public and non-public schools instructional materials | ||||||
6 | which may be used by such schools as guidelines for | ||||||
7 | development of a program of instruction under this subsection | ||||||
8 | (a); provided, however, that each school board shall itself | ||||||
9 | determine the minimum amount of instruction time which shall | ||||||
10 | qualify as a program of instruction which will satisfy the | ||||||
11 | requirements of this subsection (a). | ||||||
12 | The State Superintendent of Education, in cooperation with | ||||||
13 | the Department of Children and Family Services, shall prepare | ||||||
14 | and disseminate to all public schools and non-public schools, | ||||||
15 | information on instructional materials and programs about | ||||||
16 | child sexual abuse which may be used by such schools for their | ||||||
17 | own or community programs. Such information may also be | ||||||
18 | disseminated by such schools to parents. | ||||||
19 | (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Section, no | ||||||
20 | pupil in any of grades kindergarten through 8 shall be | ||||||
21 | required to take or participate in any class or course | ||||||
22 | providing instruction in recognizing and avoiding sexual abuse | ||||||
23 | if the parent or guardian of the pupil submits written | ||||||
24 | objection thereto; and refusal to take or participate in such | ||||||
25 | class or course after such written objection is made shall not | ||||||
26 | be reason for failing, suspending or expelling such pupil. |
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1 | Each school board intending to offer any such class or course | ||||||
2 | to pupils in any of grades kindergarten through 8 shall give | ||||||
3 | not less than 5 days written notice to the parents or guardians | ||||||
4 | of such pupils before commencing the class or course. | ||||||
5 | (c) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, in every | ||||||
6 | State-required health course for grades 9 through 12 and, | ||||||
7 | beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, in at least one unit | ||||||
8 | in the State-required health courses for grades 6 through 8 , a | ||||||
9 | school district shall provide instruction, study, and | ||||||
10 | discussion on the dangers of fentanyl. Information for the | ||||||
11 | instruction, study, and discussion of fentanyl shall be age | ||||||
12 | and developmentally appropriate and may include the | ||||||
13 | information contained in the Substance Use Prevention and | ||||||
14 | Recovery Instruction Resource Guide developed by the State | ||||||
15 | Board of Education under Section 22-81, as applicable shall | ||||||
16 | come from information provided by the National Institutes of | ||||||
17 | Health, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, or | ||||||
18 | the United States Department of Health and Human Services . | ||||||
19 | This instruction, study, and discussion shall include, at a | ||||||
20 | minimum, all of the following for grades 9 through 12 and may | ||||||
21 | include the following for grades 6 through 8 : | ||||||
22 | (1) Information on fentanyl itself, including an | ||||||
23 | explanation of the differences between synthetic and | ||||||
24 | nonsynthetic opioids and illicit drugs, the variations of | ||||||
25 | fentanyl itself, and the differences between the legal and | ||||||
26 | illegal uses of fentanyl. |
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1 | (2) The side effects and the risk factors of using | ||||||
2 | fentanyl, along with information comparing the lethal | ||||||
3 | amounts of fentanyl to other drugs. Information on the | ||||||
4 | risk factors may include, but is not limited to: | ||||||
5 | (A) the lethal dose of fentanyl; | ||||||
6 | (B) how often fentanyl is placed in drugs without | ||||||
7 | a person's knowledge; | ||||||
8 | (C) an explanation of what fentanyl does to a | ||||||
9 | person's body and the severity of fentanyl's addictive | ||||||
10 | properties; and | ||||||
11 | (D) how the consumption of fentanyl can lead to | ||||||
12 | hypoxia, as well as an explanation of what hypoxia | ||||||
13 | precisely does to a person's body. | ||||||
14 | (3) Details about the process of lacing fentanyl in | ||||||
15 | other drugs and why drugs get laced with fentanyl. | ||||||
16 | (4) Details about how to detect fentanyl in drugs and | ||||||
17 | how to save someone from an overdose of fentanyl, which | ||||||
18 | shall include: | ||||||
19 | (A) how to buy and use fentanyl test strips; | ||||||
20 | (B) how to buy and use naloxone, either through a | ||||||
21 | nasal spray or an injection; and | ||||||
22 | (C) how to detect if someone is overdosing on | ||||||
23 | fentanyl. | ||||||
24 | Students in grades 9 through 12 shall be assessed on the | ||||||
25 | instruction required under this subsection (c). The assessment | ||||||
26 | may include, but is not limited to: |
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